尽管美国一直是世界上最大的资源消耗国,但随着经济的快速发展,中国正超过美国成为世界最大的消费国。在五种基本食品、能源和工业消费品(谷物、肉类、石油、煤炭和钢铁)中,除石油消费美国领先中国外,其余消费中国均已超过美国。中国在粮食消费总量上已远远超过美国(图1),2004 Although the United States has always been the world’s largest resource consumer, with the rapid economic development, China is surpassing the United States as the world’s largest consumer. Of the five basic food, energy and consumer products (grains, meat, oil, coal and steel), the remaining consumer China surpassed the United States with the exception of oil being consumed by the United States ahead of China. China has far exceeded the total food consumption in the United States (Figure 1), 2004